It's not a question of fragile, it's a question of constantly bypassing the security that is supposed to be in place.<p>I can perfectly understand that my company refuses me to install an app on my laptop because it may cause security concerns (it my case, it was Tencent's WeChat app).
What I don't understand is why I can't install my apps (which are very "normal" third party applications) on my company laptop, while at the same time there's apparently no issue to grant insane privileges to a third party application that allows god knows who to push updates without any check and literally brick workstations.<p>Regardless of anti-virus, threat detection, online games anti-cheat or whatever, no third party applications should be able to push updates over the air without the user being warned and consenting. period.<p>Another thing that also need to be highlighted is why everyone runs Windows ? We have all seen the pictures of the displays in the subways stations or the advertisement displays, screens showing the gates numbers at the airports etc... Does this kind of tool really requires a paid MS license to fulfill its purpose ? I mean, why MS Windows is necessary to display the number of a boarding gate & flight information in an airport ? Why not using a Raspberry Pi or something ? And most importantly, why a display showing the gate number in an airport has to be connected to the Internet ?
They've been this fragile for some considerable time. We've just been lucky, over and over again, that nothing of this seriousness has happened before.